LLVM Weekly - #99, Nov 23rd 2015

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News and articles from around the web

LLVM/Clang 3.7.1-rc2 has been
tagged.
As always, help testing is appreciated.

Clasp 0.4 has been
released.
Clasp is a new Common Lisp implementation that uses LLVM as a compiler backend
and aims to offer seamless C++ interoperation.

Rail Shafigulin is working on a custom VLIW architecture and has had a
numberofquestionsaboutthe
DFAPacketizer. Krzysztof Parzyszek has provided useful answers each time -
well worth a read of these threads if you're doing any work with VLIW or want
to learn more about DFAPacketizer.

LLVM commits

It is now possible to use the -force-attribute command-line option for
specifying a function attribute for a particular function (e.g. norecurse,
noinline etc). This should be very useful for testing.
r253550.